Cutting triangular cycles of lines in space

  • Authors:
  • Boris Aronov;Vladlen Koltun;Micha Sharir

  • Affiliations:
  • Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY;University of California, Berkeley, CA;Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel and New York University, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the thirty-fifth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We show that a collection of lines in 3-space can be cut into a subquadratic number of pieces, such that all depth cycles defined by triples of lines are eliminated. This partially resolves a long-standing open problem in computational geometry, motivated by hidden-surface removal in computer graphics.